Posts Tagged ‘web content;’

Gilbane 2011 – All the cool web kids are social, is your CMS ready to hang with them?

December 5th, 2011 - 9:36 pm § in Content Management, Gilbane, Observations | | 1 Comment
This week I had the pleasure of returning to an old haunt as I was asked to present at Gilbane Boston. I say ‘old haunt’ as I was actually completely blindsided by the fact it was not at the Westin in Copley Place – which, by my reckoning, it had been there since before Vignette was founded (or when we were all children). Therefore my cunning plan to stay in my current favorite reasonably priced hotel in Boston (the Colonnade), positioned just outside the Copley place action was a bad one. Anyway, besides my mistake, the venue was actually great and better than the half mall/half hotel that is Copley... .....but this is not a travelogue, I am here to write about my presentation. [ read more ]

Has CRM Finally Decided it Owns the Customers Digital Voice?

March 30th, 2011 - 2:38 pm § in Observations | | No Comments
So, today Salesforce.com has moved to acquire Radian6, a respected and possibly ‘leading’ vendor in the relatively new space of Social Media Monitoring (SMM), a rival to products like Alterian’s SM2 product that I knew relatively well. For anyone interested in digital engagement whether you call it web (WEM), customer (CEM) or pervasive (PEM) this looks to me like a significant move. [ read more ]

Who Will Buy This Web Engagement?

December 23rd, 2010 - 3:18 pm § in Content Management, Gilbane, Observations, The Engagement Tier | | 11 Comments
As the holidays approach, my SKY+ hard disk (PVR/Tivo thing) is brimming with movies ready for the onset of quality time with my young family. Perhaps our viewing pleasure as I recuperated from what I anticipate to be a fine lunch could be an old movie that I think will entertain the girls - the musical Oliver!. In it they sing “Who will buy”, something I have been hearing on blogs and twitter about Web Engagement. [ read more ]

Content vs Conversation – no.. email is not a CMS…

November 9th, 2010 - 11:04 pm § in Observations | | 1 Comment
I've just had a great conversation with a new Gilbane client (a really switched on bunch of folks) and one of the guys  used the expression "content vs conversation" when talking about the way content is shared in their organization. How, like an awful lot of our organizations there is an awful lot of content residing in e-mail - and this has inspired me to reach for Wordpress. [ read more ]

On Shanty Towns, Bulldozers, Cats and Website Consolidation…

September 21st, 2010 - 7:10 pm § in Content Management, Gilbane | | 1 Comment
This blog post is inspired by an excellent conversation I had with my colleague Scott Liewehr a few days ago, about the challenges of managing multiple sites – that ended with the comment “that sounds like a great blog post”. So here we are, while the inspiration is still warm - allow me to wheel out an old hobby horse of mine and give it a couple of laps of the yard – not sure I can claim great blog post but.. here goes… [ read more ]

Is WordPress a CMS? Hardly? Barely?

March 3rd, 2010 - 2:54 pm § in Observations | | 12 Comments
The perennial "what is a CMS" debate broke out this week, with a fairly innocuous tweet from Dirk Shaw, "I am sorry but wordpress is hardly a web content management system." that many of our CMS community waded into and included this post on CMS Myth arguing in favour and just about everyone arguing against... and crikey I might  not be standing next to my on-line friends on this - now Dirk knows what he's talking about, as a Vignette alumnus and blogger, maybe the key to the phrase he used is the word 'hardly' - could I suggest we should say 'barely''? [ read more ]

TfMA Seminar – Content is still King!

March 1st, 2010 - 6:25 pm § in Content Management, Persuasive Content, Speaking, Web Engagement | | No Comments
Forgive the cheesy title, but yes I gave a presentation at the Technology for Marketing and Advertising (TfMA) show last week where I talked about the place of content and in web or digital engagement. Or as marketing put it in the show guide synopsis:  "The importance of good content management and governance as a platform for engaging your website visitors" [ read more ]

The Future of Content Management

August 19th, 2009 - 7:00 pm § in Content Management, Social Media | | 4 Comments
CMS bloggers of the world have been double dared again, not this time by @kasthomas, but by Julian Wraith (@julianwraith)- who in this post wants the CMS community to gaze into our crystal balls and speculate on the future of Content Management.I think the Future of Content Management is about people. Is that too predictable, does this mean I am going to wang on about ease of use? [ read more ]

Techrigy and Persuasive Content

July 31st, 2009 - 9:06 pm § in Persuasive Content, Web Engagement | | 1 Comment
A couple of weeks ago Alterian aquired Techrigy who specialize in Social Media Monitoring and whilst its obviously exciting to be part of an organisation that is confidently aquiring and growing - it's even better when it's an absolutely gem that has everyone talking. So, I thought I'd better jot down a few thought on this - what does Social Media Monitoring mean for Web Content Management? [ read more ]

Build It and they will Build It and they will Build It and they…

March 17th, 2009 - 4:34 pm § in Observations | | 1 Comment
Inspired by a blog post by Ron Miller, where he comments on an article by Clay Johnson, that states that Content Management Systems just don't work and you should seriously consider building one yourself. Really? Clearly with my background this got my attention... [ read more ]